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First is beat *ichigan because fuck them and I grew up in the 90s with Cooper losing to them in almost every season, I never want to go through that again. My happiest Buckeye moment was beating them in '06 over any title I have watched. Plus a million reasons growing up living that rivalry that I won't back the thread up with. Day has to start beating them, but no doubt about it that we should be thrilled to have him as our coach.
But I will say a Natty is pretty damn close behind and by a small fraction, especially in the fashion that we did it. I still haven't come down from that whole ride in the last 4 games. I realize that with the expanded playoffs that we have to preserve the players, but I also believe that had zero percent to do with why we lost The Game this year. Perhaps that loss motivated the hell out of the team for the title run, but it should never take that. If a lot of other teams didn't screw up toward the end, we would have likely been left out with the ttun loss and no B1G appearance.
Third is the B1G and of course we want to win that, but the expanded playoffs has diminished the importance of that goal some. If we beat ttun and lose to Oregon or whoever else in the B1G, we would have got about the same seed or maybe even better.
For Day, my opinion is he earned the right to a hot seat and then definitively got himself off of it in epic fashion. I am so glad that he did and with the coach that he is, 4 years seems like eternity but he is going to right the ship on The Game. He's definitely earned the right to get to prove that.
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I'd argue it has diminished it significantly.
Future changes to the format could make it more relevant again, but this year proved its irrelevance in the current system...ask Oregon fans whether they'd rather have that B1G trophy or the Rose Bowl trophy (with the added bonus of being able to continue playing)...
Winning a Quarterfinal/Semifinal game is more important than winning the B1G now, without question. But again, some format fixes/changes should lead to quite a bit of overlap there, especially if/when they eventually get rid of conference championship games and just revert back to co-champions...
Easier said than done. She’s still a mom, and most schools send school updates through social media like FB and Twitter. She also probably keeps in contact with out of town family as well through social media. Most of peoples lives are apart of social media now. Not so easy to just delete everything because your husbands job attracts idiots and mouth breathers who hide behind screens
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I think you're overstating the diminishment. I'm not talking about what Hoel Klatt or Rich Eisen or Nick Saban thinks or says.
A very large portion if not majority of the fan base either wanted Day gone or didn't argue with those who did because 4 of his 10 total losses in 6 years were to tsun.
I was born in '79. We have ended far more seasons without a NC than a victory in The Game. Coop wasn't fired for losing citrus bowls.
I'm trying to wrap my head around people thinking natties are more important. This is the 3rd title of my life. While great, it is a distant 3rd for me. Every win in The Game felt better than this title.
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The schools all use robo text/calling, and you don’t even need an account to access Facebook and Twitter. And that’s exactly why you delete it, to avoid all the evil things that you mention. Way more downside than upside for the wife of a football coach. The reason people use these platforms is because they want the upside without the downside. If the downside is causing you grief, always choose to remove the grief from your life. You don’t need it. None of my family will go near it. Learned the hard way about a decade ago. Didn't miss it for a second. The funny thing is that families were a lot closer before social media existed.
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Depends on the ages of your family. Not many people call and talk like in the past. And honestly technology is way more convenient to see kids grow up and keep in contact. Calling my grandmother weekly in the 80s is not the same as being able to FaceTime her and see me on real time. Your phone call can only provide so much, when a picture and video can provide so much more, that's why many people still keep social media.
His wife posting her sons football games on her social media or her daughters event on social media is for their family to see. You're not getting that connecting 20-30yrs ago. There are still a lot of positives to social media, that having a land line and stamps on an envelope back in the day don't trump
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Technology is not social media though. Social media makes your Zoom call with grandma, publicly available to all those “mouth breathers“ that you mention. That’s social media. To each his own.
BTW, that asshole who tweeted that message from Day’s wife, posted a private message she sent to a very small group of instagram friends/followers. Therein lies the overarching problem for someone in her position in life.
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No they don’t but there is still plenty of room on C deck facade because they are fewer and far between.
To add to the mental exercise here; turn it around and ask how much heat Day would be under had he won The Game the past 4 years and failed to win a NC?
Not nearly as much. I’ll guarantee you that.
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I look at it like report cards as a kid. Mom would praise me for an A but I was fucking dead for anything below a C.
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